Safeway Corp. as a Healthcare Model

WE DO NOT NEED A HEALTHCARE OVERHAUL BY THE GOVERNMENT.

WE NEED TO REFORM THE PRESENT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, REFORM MEDICARE AND MEDICAID, REFORM PRESCRIPTION DRUG/
PRICES AND MALPRACTICE INSURANCE...we need NOT to reinforce a broken model (Medicare, Medicaid).

WE NEED TO LOOK HARD AND LONG AT SAFEWAY CORP EMPLOYEE COVERAGE.
IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, SAFEWAY CORP GIVES A CHECK FOR ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO EACH EMPLOYEE. EACH EMPLOYEE HAS
A 2,000 dollar deductible....Each employee spends his check on necessities....he thinks hard and fast about unnecessary tests and prescription drug usage.
Safeway tells each employee:

if you lessen your body fat, we shall lower your premium.
If you stop smoking, we shall lessen your premium.
If you exercise, we shall lessen your premium.
If you eat well, we shall lessen your premium...

What Safeway is successful at is incentivizing its employees.....what our HR 3200 does is to de-incentivize the taxpayer, making all the choices for the patient.
Safeway Corp has 200,000 employees....they are a success at what they do, and they monitor the employees.
Safeway trusts their employees to make good decisions....HR 3200 does not.
Think about this:
If HR 3200 passes, in less than four years your medical 'chip' will be sent to Washington D. C. to be scrutinized by IMAC (Intermediary Medical Advisory Commission).
This Commission will be your inevitable decision-maker... They will decide what the word "adequate" means; they will decide if you are 'young enough' to have a hip operation or a transplant. They will send out healthcare workers to advise you on your "How to Die Rights, your Living Will, Your Hospice advisor. All Elderly will be assigned and "End of Life" Counselor...but no one is told so far what age is considered 'elderly.....60 is the age written into the bill now....but that number is subject to change.
Socialized Medicine is when the Government makes all the decisions for you....Welcome to George Orwell's '1984.'
We lose our freedoms one step at a time....the attrition is subtle....the attrition is meant to be subtle....so we won't notice the over-reaching of this administration.....
(The preceding paragraph is based on fact....not opinion.)
The most vulnerable will be the very young and the very old; and the group who will pay the most will be those in their late twenties, early thirties, the rich and small businesses.
For almost 60 percent of us, the last 4 years of our life is 80 percent of our healthcare expense.....

America, wake up. Government-run takeover of healthcare is bad for your health.

Healthcare OVERHAUL by President Obama:

Here are just 7 reasons NOT to adopt HR 3200, Universal Healthcare . . . the government takeover . . . . .

1. The United States Postal Service: As of July 28, 2009, the postmaster general has informed Congress that our "GOVERNMENT- RUN POSTAL SERVICE' has
announced a 7 BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT. The Postmaster General is requesting that mail be delivered 5 days a week . . . . .

Please be aware: Our postal system has a large inventory of homes . . . .you ask, "Homes, where would they come from?" In case you thought our postal system
just delivered mail and sold stamps, they also purchase homes of employees who are being transferred to other parts of the country. Who would ever
dream that our postal service had the jurisdiction to do such a thing . . . think again . . . With the downturn of the economy and home prices, perhaps you can
concur where some of the 7 billion dollar deficit is coming from . . . Some of the homes were in the million-dollar range. Dateline did the expose' on our
postal service 6 months ago, exploiting the far-reaching jurisdiction of the postal service . . . . .

2. Here is another reason to "just say NO” to Government Healthcare:
In 1971, in an admirable attempt to improve our railway system, our GOVERNMENT subsidized Amtrak. We, the taxpayers, were told that Amtrak would only need 2 years of subsidizing . . . Here we are in 2009, 36 years later, still carrying the yearly budget of Amtrak . . . which runs at a deficit each and every year . . .
May I recommend privatizing Amtrak and saving 2 1/2 billion a year?

3. Flu Shots: Last year we ran out of vaccine, and by yearend we were told that the flu vaccine had only been 44 percent effective . . . once again, the efficiency of our government is pathetic . . .

4. According to Al Lewis, Newswire . . . To date, we have spent 68 billion of the 787 billion dollar stimulus . . . that 68 billion spent - represents 450,000 dollars for each of the jobs created to date by the stimulus . . . think about that . . . That is more than twice the normal estimate by the GAO (Gov't. Accounting Office).

5. 9/11: Let me count the ways in which our government failed us: The CIA, FBI, NTSB, FAA, INS: All these government agencies failed us . . .
Wake up, America . . . please wake up.

6. ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ARE EXEMPT FROM THE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE COVERAGE . . . Please think about this: If HR 3200 is as good as our president says, why would he exempt Federal employees? Wake up, America . . . please wake up.

7. Our President promised that nothing would be voted on unless a bill had been "posted" for ten days . . . Once again, Mr. President, what is your hurry; and if "sunlight is the best disinfectant,” give us the time to read, evaluate and discuss HR 3200 . . . . . .